Hello there, Well, we had a very uneventfull flight to Bangkok and landed at about 11pm, just in time to catch the last bus into town. We got there and went to the guesthouse we had stayed at 3 months before which was nice. They even remembered us. It was so nice to be back. All the lovely (and horrid) smells and the warmth and farmiliar sounds n sights. We crashed out pretty quickly after a day of travelling on trains, buses, ferries and planes, but it was actu...

Ello! Well, I shall start with our super duper long train journey. 28 hours down to Guilin! It was actually sooo nice. We had the cabin almost to ourselves (an old lady slept on bed above us for few hours!) and we caught up on some desperately needed resting and lazing about. Literally, we were awake for about 5 hours out of 28! It was amazing lol. We stopped at Guilin for a night as the train got in quite late, and after wandering around trying to find the gues...

Ni Hao (Hello in Madarin), OMG, I can't believe that we have been to Beijing, really amazing place... mainly for the sights rather than the atmosphere or backpacker scene, but the sights were truly amazing! We arrived on the train from Xi'an pretty early in the morning. The train station in Beijing was massive, so huge that we even managed to get lost just getting out of the place a couple of times. By the time we did manage to get out of the station it was pas...

Hello all, Wow, it feels like a long time since we've done anything on here, were so busy in China so lots of catching up to do now. After our journey from Chengdu, with the Chinese man who had a thing for keeping the cabin door open, we arrived in Xi'an at a decent hour and got collected from the train station by the hostel that we had booked with. It was really strange turning up somewhere, with somebody waiting for you... he even had a name card that he was ...

Dear diary, After a fairly long train journey, on a hard sleeper, which we shared with some mothers and their young children, we arrived in Chengdu, one of China's larger cities, fairly exhausted and a bit bleary-eyed. Our train got us into Chengdu station at around 5am, and it was around 5km from there to our guesthouse. For this reason we had planned to catch a taxi, as walking through a city at stupid o'c...